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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§709a Authorization of appropriations

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY GAME AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY › § 709a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money from the U.S. Treasury can be provided as needed to carry out the conventions, this part of the law, and the rules made under them. The Secretary of the Interior may use those funds to hire staff, work with local officials, and run investigations to protect migratory birds.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §709a

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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and to accomplish the purposes of said conventions and of this subchapter and regulations made pursuant thereto, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized out of such moneys to employ in the city of Washington and elsewhere such persons and means as he may deem necessary for such purpose and may cooperate with local authorities in the protection of migratory birds and make the necessary investigations connected therewith.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Act
June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 5, 49 Stat. 1556, provided in part that this section is effective as of the day aforesaid (
June 30, 1937). See

Effective Date

of 1936 Amendment note set out under section 703 of this title. Availability of FundsAct June 20, 1936, ch. 634, § 6, 49 Stat. 1557, provided: “That all moneys now or hereafter available for administration and

Enforcement

of said Act approved July 3, 1918 [this subchapter], shall be equally available for the administration and

Enforcement

of said Act as hereby amended.”

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain

Enforcement

functions of Secretary or other official in Department of the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 706 of this title.

Transfer of Functions

of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 701 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 709a

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73